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    When people hear the word marijuana (also known as cannabis), images of long hair bongo playing hippies may come to mind. Or people sitting around doing nothing but munching on snacks, is another common image when thinking about marijuana. These stereotypical images have come to portray people that smoke marijuana, but the fact is most people would never know if someone uses marijuana because they look just like everyone else. Legalization of marijuana is a hot topic among individuals today…

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    2727 B.C. Although the first scientist to discover the main component in cannabis (tetrahydrocannabinol) tetrahydrocannabinol is a “physiologically active component in cannabis preparations, including marijuana and hashish, derived from the Indian hemp plant or produced synthetically” (“Tetrahydrocannabinol 1”).No…

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    Marijuana has been an increasing issue since its production was discovered in the 1600s from the hemp plant. Marijuana is made out of the dried flowers and leaves from the hemp plant. Since the 1600s, many states have been torn between the idea of marijuana being just a plant and harmless, and marijuana being a drug that causes substance abuse and is linked to many crimes. Some of the first federal laws against drugs were 1952 Boggs Act and 1956 Narcotics Acts which enforced that if a person was…

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    my investigation into this matter, I looked up the definitions of marijuana and what the difference between it is medically and recreationally. Marijuana is defined by the Webster 's Dictionary as “the dried leaves of the hemp plant used as a narcotic or…

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    There are many different positions on should Marijuana be legal this a controversial topic. Whether it is for medical reasons, illegalization, socializing, obtaining a high, or escaping depression; marijuana has impacted humans in a lively manner. Usually people are either fully against it or fully for it. People support Marijuana for various reasons from medical reasons to recreational reasons. People that are against legalization tend to be against it for the same reason, they…

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    by human hands all across the globe for both practical and recreational uses. High-fiber, low-THC varieties have been grown for hemp products practically since the beginning of human agriculture, with records of the recreational use of low-fiber, high-THC strains as far back as Hellenistic Greece. With much of colonial America’s industry centered in agrarian concerns, hemp growth was common enough to have been a crop in the fields of our country’s Founding…

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    Health Benefits of Marijuana Marijuana is a word used for a herb. It can be described by its physical appearance like dried leaves, flowers and seeds of an Indian hemp plant. In the normal world, it is known as “Astroturf, and the most popular are BHANG”. Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette known as joint, also be smoked in a pipe. Often, it is mixed with food and eaten or brewed as the tea. When a person smokes a joint, he usually feels its effect within minutes. The immediate effect…

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    Legalization Of Marijuana: The Drug of The Future Does one believe marijuana is bad? Marijuana, also known as cannabis, can be used as a psychiatric drug or medicine. Marijuana is illegal in the United States except for twenty three states and including Washington DC. Many citizens are fighting for the legalization of marijuana. Marijuana has many benefits that will help the country in the future, if it becomes legal. Marijuana can further the country economically, medically, and it is less…

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    causing negative effects on health and families. Marijuana is a drug from the dried leaves and flowering tops of a plot called hemp. When using marijuana, education will be affected negatively. Injuries that come from impaired driving would increase, when under the influence of marijuana. Marijuana is a drug from the dried leaves and flowering tops of a plot called hemp. The scientific name is cannabis Styx. A chemical found in the plant is what is responsible for most of marijuana's…

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    cannabis by adults without fear of prosecution, treating cannabis in a similar manner to alcohol or tobacco (restricted 18), prior cannabis convictions to be quashed, marijuana to become available at a medicinal level and enabling the production of hemp bio-fuels. They plan to enforce this policy by meeting the 5% threshold Parliament holds over them (lawsociety.org.nz). Not only does their policy have specificity, it also has objectives. The largest of them is to reduce the amount of crime,…

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